Nebulous, pluvial, precipitation—some words of the day
My eyeballs twitched, and all I could think of was electricity and words associated with rain. Nebulous. Pluvial. Precipitation.
My eyeballs twitched, and all I could think of was electricity and words associated with rain. Nebulous. Pluvial. Precipitation.
If you're not considering how your content is consumed on screen, you're ignoring a huge part of your audience—it's like writing a document, then hiding it...
Last night I dreamed of buying a printer. That’s a pretty crap dream, by any standard. Not only was the subject matter mundane and worky, but I couldn’t actually find the right printer. The study of dreams is called oneirology, which is a nice word—if a little heavy on the vowels—but this is the actual [...]
Dave called in sick. 'I have a raging case of dysania', he said.'
You've probably heard some nonsense about it relating to ships and cannonballs and some kind of cannonball holder called a 'monkey'...
Much has been happening: I'm speaking about accessibility at the Queensland Business Writers' Conference, and we have our first public web-writing course booked.
Definition: Petty and underhanded legal wrangling. Pettifoggery.
Barry, the antithalian Australian, after a day spent scowling at cooing babies...
After raging ad-hoc, non-traditional apostrophe abuse, one of the most common mistakes an editor sees is people using 'i.e.' and 'e.g.' interchangeably. First things first: they are not interchangeable. Well, they may be interchangeable in some kind of surrealist anti-grammar situation, where the desired effect is to get your reader to tear out their tongue [...]
Definition: a hatred of reason. A distrust of logical debate. Going far beyond plain old cognitive dissonance—the holding of conflicting viewpoints—misology seems to be quite popular.